mr2 ring crash - good warning though

scary stuff, but a good warning to be careful

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lucky boy!

 

Is the driver of the crashed MR2 from the UK, how would you get your car home after doing that to it?

Bet the armco repair bill was a few quid too!

Alan

 

well, the 'ring officials would clear it off the 'ring to a local salvage yard (and change you 150ish for it), then you'd get your breakdown recover to pick up the car and bring it home. or you'd have to pay thousands if you didnt have cover, or come back with a trailer (some on SCN did this when they had a engine fire).

yeah, would have thought the armoc bill was a lot...

i estimate it at about at the very minimum 500 (so about 350)...not good.

i'm quite impressed how well the car stood up considering how hard a hit it looked like. that is one scary corner, scweidenkreuz, when i pootled through there last year in the wet my steering went light.
Edited by: acf8181

 

so that's 350 minus the 250 for sending clip to You've Been Framed and you're only 100 out of pocket

 

well, thats one approach!

 

Was a lucky boy, came screaming up and past the camera car.

Just from driving the ring on GT4 scares the shit out of me thinking about driving it in my own car

 

The M3 driver that took out 'many' meters of armco at Quiddelbacher hohe last August was faced with a bill of over 10,000 + his written off E46 M3

If you read Ben Lovejoy's http://www.nurburgring.org.uk latest trip report, he was a passenger in a mk2 Golf that crashed at Metgezfeld at the weekend then later on came across a rolled 911 at miss-hit-miss , all scary stuff. Makes you think.

 

yeah, best to take it quite easy and just enjoy the track without going for it i reckon. not worth it in a road car.

that m3 that crashed last year was just after i broke down....i remember on my one lap there was so much standaing water over the bridge that i slowed down for it (main reason for that was cause a 911 gt3rs was passing at the same time - he didnt live, the loony!)

 

He could have driven that home...

 

with all the 'ring clips up recently..im shocked at just how realistic it is to GT4 and also just how unforgiving it is!

 

Only difference being, you can't press reset in real life

 

I still want to go next year - funds permitting! (mind you, at the speed I'd be travelling the biggest hazard would be getting trapped in the slipstream of a passing tortoise).
Edited by: stimpy

 

My Uncle races his Radical there a few times a year and my old man thumps his Impreza there too.

He once rented a Beemer 316 about 20 years ago from Avis and spun it on a bend, no damage luckily though

 

interesting reading about the Mk2 i shall pad up my cage properly i think before this years exploits .. ANd give the Damp track a wide berth !!

 

IMO It's not the risk going out and driving quick on a wet track at the 'ring, nothing to be gained by it and a lot to be lost.

It's usually on the 20+ lap people crash as they think they know the track and start to push harder.
Edited by: GVK

 

tell me about the wet...i literally pootled around (dont think i went over 80) and at ad forst it wanted to start understeering under very light accelaration, and at scweidenkreuz the steering went light. its a proper ice rink!

 

Isn't Scweidenkreuz the most dangerous corner? As opposed to AForst which sees the most crashes? Read that somewhere...